Josef Heyes

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Willich's Mayor Josef Heyes

Josef Heyes (born August 19, 1948 in Schiefbahn ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and mayor of the city of Willich .

Career

After finishing school, Heyes completed an agricultural apprenticeship on his parents' farm in Schiefbahn and then did military service with the river pioneers in Uerdingen . This was followed by a degree in agriculture at the University of Paderborn in Soest , which he graduated with honors in 1976 as a graduate agricultural engineer . At first he worked as an agricultural expert at the regional tax office in Cologne and then moved to the State Office for Food Industry and Hunting in North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf . During this time he also worked as an expert for public prosecutors .

In 1978 he worked in the organizing committee of the successful citizens' initiative Stop KOOP against the cooperative unit school in North Rhine-Westphalia and joined the CDU . Since 1979 he has been a member of the council of the city of Willich, where he was chairman of the economic and works committee. Between 1984 and 1994 he was Deputy Mayor of Mayor Käthe Franke , whose successor he was in 1994. Until 1995 Heyes was the last honorary mayor of the city of Willich. From 1995 to 1999 he acted again as Deputy Mayor, this time from Mayor Lukas Siebenkotten .

On September 12, 1999, Heyes was elected full-time mayor of the city of Willich in the first ballot with 52.76% of the vote. Five years later, in the local elections on September 26, 2004 , he received 72.28% of the vote in the first ballot. In the local elections on August 30, 2009 , he received 83.5% of the vote in the first ballot. In the local elections on May 25, 2014 , he received 67.03% of the vote in the first ballot.

On January 2, 2020, Heyes announced at a press conference that he would not run for mayor again after 21 years in the upcoming North Rhine-Westphalian municipal elections.

Awards

On April 29, 2011 he was honored by the Japanese government with the Order of the Rising Sun (middle order on ribbon) "for his great services to the improvement and promotion of German-Japanese relations" . Josef Heyes has been an honorary citizen of Willich's twin town Linselles in France since 2011 . In recognition of his commitment to German-French friendship, he received the Médaille de l'Assemblée nationale from Vincent Ledoux in December 2019 .

family

Heyes was born as the eldest of four sons of a farmer in Schiefbahn. He grew up on his parents' farm in Diepenbroich in Willich-Schiefbahn, which is now run by his younger brother Georg. During his studies Heyes married his wife Maria, geb. Bogie , with whom he has three daughters and a son.

Volunteering

In addition to his political work, Heyes volunteers in development aid and has been the chairman of the Mission and Leprosy Aid Campaign in Schiefbahn since 1983. In 1987 he built a grinding and mixing plant for animal feed in Arusha ( Tanzania ). The construction project was funded by the European Community .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CDU expands majority, Heyes 83.5 percent. (No longer available online.) RP Online , archived from the original on September 3, 2009 ; Retrieved August 30, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  2. ↑ These are the election results from Willich. RP Online , accessed May 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Heyes no longer competes. City of Willich, accessed on January 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Press release of the Japanese Consulate General Düsseldorf No. 04/2011 ( PDF, 21 kB )
  5. ↑ Japanese Order for Josef Heyes
  6. ↑ Josef Heyes honorary citizen of the city of Linselles. RP Online , accessed January 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Linselles: près de 800 personnes ont assisté à la dernière cérémonie de vœux d'Yves Lefebvre. La Voix du Nord , accessed January 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Board of Directors. Aktion Mission und Leprahilfe Schiefbahn, accessed on September 11, 2014 .
  9. ↑ A mill in Arusha. Retrieved August 30, 2009 .

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personal data
SURNAME Heyes, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU) and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Inclined path